The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the counsel by All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that former presidents of the country should quit politics and join the retiree ’s club, best suits President Muhammadu Buhari.
The party said Asiwaju Tinubu’s stance completely vindicated the positions of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, the PDP as well as majority of Nigerians, who held that President Buhari should not seek re-election in 2019, having allegedly woefully failed in governance and nation building.
The party further said that President Buhari ought to step aside largely due to his inability to connect with the social and economic realities and speed of the current generation.
The PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday, said Asiwaju Tinubu wass proverbially passing a message to President Buhari and his supporters on the fact that their candidate no longer enjoyed mass acceptance among Nigerians ahead of the 2019 general elections.
PDP said every discerning Nigerian had discovered the fact that Asiwaju Tinubu was subtly passing a critical message to President Buhari and his supporters that he should not contest the 2019 election and that Nigerians had already moved on even without them.
“Even Asiwaju Tinubu knows that President Buhari, for obvious reasons, is the most qualified of all our elder statesmen to join the retiree ’s club and save the nation the agony of more years of misrule characterised by untold economic hardship, heavy bloodletting and general indignation.
“The supporters of President Buhari should therefore accept the reality by reading the handwriting on the wall and heed wise counsel from well-meaning Nigerians.
“In any case, the APC is already on a death throe, having led the worst government in the history of our nation and will end up as the first party in government at the centre that will be rejected by Nigerians at a second attempt,” the PDP said.
The leading opposition party said its doors were open to all in “the patriotic quest to end the APC misrule by ensuring a new engagement among Nigerians from all walks of life.”
